Lake Navajo Water Database

Navajo Lake, San Juan River, Fly Fishing

Lake Navajo




Water Summary
Today is day 230 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 63% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6038.96 on Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Lake Navajo was last within 3" of this elevation on May 17, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Navajo Dam Release Data
Lake Navajo is 46.04 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6085.00 )

By content, Lake Navajo is 61.89% of Full Pool (1,696,000 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 208,986 acre feet

This is 46.12% of the average of 453,122 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 195,008 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 333,966 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has fallen by 38,348 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 13,978 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 92.08% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Lake Navajo are running at 35.66% of the avg. Click for Details

Lake Navajo is down -7.75 feet from one year ago.    Lake Navajo is up 2.84 feet from the low for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Lake Navajo is up 1.27 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, May 18, 2025
6038.96
0.06
1,049,718
1239
385
71.2
47.3
Sat, May 17, 2025
6038.90
0.08
1,049,092
1385
385
80.8
36.9
Fri, May 16, 2025
6038.82
0.19
1,048,258
1937
384
76.7
36.0
Thu, May 15, 2025
6038.63
0.04
1,046,279
1077
379
70.0
36.6
Wed, May 14, 2025
6038.59
0.16
1,045,863
1773
376
62.9
48.5
Tue, May 13, 2025
6038.43
0.15
1,044,200
1805
377
80.4
57.6
Mon, May 12, 2025
6038.28
0.10
1,042,643
1499
378
83.1
47.6
Sun, May 11, 2025
6038.18
0.13
1,041,605
1513
379
81.8
47.0
Sat, May 10, 2025
6038.05
0.12
1,040,258
1459
378
78.0
44.1
Fri, May 09, 2025
6037.93
0.05
1,039,016
1090
376
77.1
43.5
Thu, May 08, 2025
6037.88
0.05
1,038,499
1088
376
69.6
44.5
Wed, May 07, 2025
6037.83
0.07
1,037,982
1134
369
64.2
42.9
Tue, May 06, 2025
6037.76
0.07
1,037,259
1282
413
53.5
42.7
Mon, May 05, 2025
6037.69
0.17
1,036,535
1653
402
57.4
43.6
Averages of List
6038.28
0.1
1,042,658
1423.9
382.6
71.9
44.2

Averages for May 18th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (06-25-1973)
6056.95
-17.99
1,316,937
3347.67
1556.77
77.94
48.37
All-Time
6044.44
-5.48
1,207,042
3413.43
1434.48
77.94
48.37

Last 10 May 18th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, May 18, 2024
6046.71
-7.75
1,133,587
2256
351
81.1
56.4
Thu, May 18, 2023
6060.20
-21.24
1,295,033
7322
20
78.1
59.7
Wed, May 18, 2022
6028.88
10.08
948,695
1913
290
87.0
47.0
Tue, May 18, 2021
6036.01
2.95
1,070,305
2166
346
70.0
51.0
Mon, May 18, 2020
6059.92
-20.96
1,346,784
2453
531
90.0
46.0
Sat, May 18, 2019
6050.26
-11.30
1,228,608
4848
410
n/a
n/a
Fri, May 18, 2018
6050.34
-11.38
1,229,550
1243
342
79.0
42.0
Thu, May 18, 2017
6077.53
-38.57
1,588,101
3311
4475
51.0
34.0
Wed, May 18, 2016
6074.77
-35.81
1,547,923
3043
1010
61.0
46.0
Mon, May 18, 2015
6048.36
-9.40
1,206,408
2707
348
75.0
44.0
Averages of List
6053.73
-14.77
1,264,560
2987
967
77.8
48.0


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Measurements are taken at 11:59 pm of the date listed
Temperature data is from Navajo Dam, NM
CHANGE represents water elevation change from previous day

Units used in each measurement:
Elevation - Feet above sea level
Change - Feet difference over previous measurement
Content - Acre Feet
Inflow - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
Outflow - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
All Temps - Degrees Farhenheit
The Water Year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the next year
Acre Feet = 1.9835 * Flow CFS
TP = Total Precipitation



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*Air temp data is sourced from (Prev 24 Hr Extremes):    Farmington, NM Weather
Water data sourced from: Lake Navajo Source Data
Weather forecast for Navajo Dam, NM
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